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Crime Novelist Swierczynski Tries Comics
Novelist Duane Swierczynski is working on two comics series for Marvel
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Facing Fear with Drew Rausch
Drew Rausch has several moody projects coming out including a collection of his Sullengrey mini-series later this month.
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True Stories of an Airship on the Arctic
Ben Towle's new graphic novel explores the real-life drama of the crash of an Italian airship at the North Pole.
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Comics Bestsellers December
Diary of a Wimpy Kid takes the #1 slot and is joined by Naruto (#2), Stephen King's Dark Tower (#3) and Buffy's The Long Way Home (#10)
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Comics Briefly
New Zuda Winner; Party with the CBDLF; Comic Book Idol at NYCC; Cosplay and Gaming at NYAF; Women, Todd Klein at The Beat; Comic Book Club Discussion; Fundraiser for Bill Mantlo; and Jason Thompson Speaks
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Panel Mania: Wonton Soup
In this 10 page preview of James Stockoe's quirky Wonton Soup: A Space Trucker Cooking Opera, a cook turned space rig driver, stops for R&R on a remote planet and does a little intergalactic cooking. The book will be published by Oni Press this month.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 12/3/2007
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 12/3
Featured this week: William Steig, women in Iraq, the mysteries of time, Budweiser's culinary aspirations, terrorist psyches and the unlikely power of the petite.
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NYAF’s John McGeary Talks Anime
PWCWtalks with the show manager of the New York Anime Fest about the intersection of anime and manga and what will make NYAF different from other anime conventions.
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Inside the Otaku Marketplace
ICv2 CEO Milton Griepp has organized “The ICv2 Anime and Manga Conference: Inside the Otaku Generation” a conference that will provide analysis and reporting on trends in anime and manga.
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Takehiko Inoue Unveils Mural at New Kinokuniya
Famed mangaka Takehiko Inoue (creator of basketball manga Slam Dunk and the Samurai manga Vagabond ) visited New York City to help celebrate the opening of the new Kinokuniya bookstore
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 12/3/2007
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A System of Facelessness
In Hope’s Boy, Andrew Bridge tells of his hard road from foster care to Harvard Law School.
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Questions of Identity
“This isn't as warm and fuzzy as those earlier books,” Charles Baxter comments, somewhat ruefully, about his latest novel, The Soul Thief (Pantheon), as we eat lunch in a trendy Minneapolis restaurant above the Walker Art Center.
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Smoking in the Boys' Room
Self-described “pulp writer” Christa Faust, who recently won an award for her novelization of the 2006 film Snakes on a Plane, celebrates another coup with Money Shot: the first female writer in Dorchester’s neo-noir Hard Case Crime imprint. How does it feel to break into the Hard Case Crime boys’ club? It’s really fantastic, almost unreal.
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 12/3/2007
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Pullman's Controversial Compass Sails into Theaters
New Line Cinema’s adaptation of Philip Pullman’s novel The Golden Compass had its world premiere in London Tuesday night and has already received a four-star review from The Guardian. The author and director have been under fire over the controversial religious content in Pullman’s books as well as the celluloid interpretation, which debuts here on December 7.
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Comics Briefly
2008 Eisners Judges Named; Vampire Writing Contest; Adrian Tomine at Giant Robot NY; Bryan Lee O'Malley, Hope; Larson Signing;Shooting War Signings ; Fletcher Hanks at Rocketship; Naruto on Direct2Drive; and Comics Holiday Shopping
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Christine Feehan Romances Manga Fans
The popular fantasy-romance novelist is the latest high-profile prose name to crossover to comics.
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Want to Understand the Writers' Strike? Read this Book
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT: A History of American Screenwriting Marc Norman. Harmony, $27 (560p) ISBN 978-0-307-38339-6 Just in time to put the current Writers Guild of America strike into perspective comes this sprawling, rollicking and very thorough history of that notoriously unappreciated figure, the Hollywood scribe.



